I find maga very uncanny valley.

This has happened way too many times for it not to be a pattern. Has anyone noticed that when you talk about any random horrible event that bothers you and you do care how it affects others so you're just talking about it or venting. Just discussing things then most maga show up and act like they genuinely don't understand empathy.

Some of this is trolling but I've seen this even in politicians who are maga. In the news they always ask questions about things that are obvious and then blame liberals for not tolerating maga's bullying.

It's that awkward crickets in the room moment when you're just sitting there and you come to the realization that wait, they really don't find Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton giving his friend a free pass from r aping a child or kicking a little girl out of the states in the middle of brain cancer treatments are all wrong.

It's the fact that they really don't realize these things are wrong, regardless of political ideology I'm sure republican moderates can likely admit that it's wrong but maga seems to be like lost.

It gives me very uncanny valley type vibes, like reminds me of the liminal spaces thing where nothing seems wrong, it's just a blank hallway but as you look, something isn't right.

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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

Empathy to them is being emotional. Emotions are a very bad thing to any Republican. It not just MAGA unfortunately.

I've come across this in moderate Republicans even. Being emotional is sort of the equivalent of being a spend thrift. And we all know how much they love money.

This actually figures into their attitude about women's rights. Women are emotional by them. And again emotions are a bad thing.

SatanBurger · 36-40, F

@DeWayfarer But the bizarre part is that the more they are not about emotion, the more emotional they are. Like all their issues are entirely emotional. From them being so anti woke (not an actual thing, ) to being scared of diversity, to abortion, to controlling women. If you look at some of the issues they are concerned about, it almost stems from something entirely irrational.

They tend to catastrophize a lot.

I even noticed on fox, I listen to the way they frame things and man, I listened for an hour over fox just literally talking among themselves about how certain people are taking over the world, how it is doomsday and everyone is out to get them. Watching them bang on the table and acting like very main character syndrome, I think it is appalling but I genuinely think they need help.

Their followers are the same way. Very emotional people with the same thing going on. You just get the sense that they are very scared people.

MoveAlong · 70-79, M

You're right about MAGA being lost. That's why they are often compared to a cult. Cults like MAGA no longer view right and wrong as being moral constants. Any event or happening is right as long as it supports or does not threaten the ideology of the cult and its leaders. Events like the murder of Pretti and Hood must be framed as righteous and fully supported.

SatanBurger · 36-40, F

@MoveAlong In the past if cult leaders commit atrocities, the other members are all too willing to let it happen

MoveAlong · 70-79, M

@MoveAlong

In the past if cult leaders commit atrocities, the other members are all too willing to let it happen

David Koresh and the "Branch Davidians" are a perfect example of what MAGA actually is on a larger scale. MAGA like the "Davidians" also support and cover for a leader who feeds them bull sht and rapes children.

Mindfulness

I think it's a deliberate attempt at desensitisation.
Keep telling people there's nothing wrong with everything bad, soon people stop caring, stop seeing even.
Take for instance, the number of seemingly kind, sensible people who voted for Trump simply because he's a Republican.
Those same people defend every abhorrent thing he does. Not because they truly believe he's right, but because they have been conditioned to not see anything bad.

SatanBurger · 36-40, F

@Mindfulness That makes a lot of sense, I've thought that there's something purposeful about their actions. It's just too weird though.

Mindfulness

@SatanBurger Is it weird? They double down on lies, they become truth. At least to their supporters.
They push not caring for others, suddenly there's a verse in the bible to back them up.
They will rewrite history, and we will all be the worse for it.
But, when they tell us we've never had it so good, we won't just believe them, we'll be grateful.

SatanBurger · 36-40, F

@Mindfulness It is weird because it's kinda similar to like let's say you're upset your friend got murdered or something. Horrible example I know but let's say I wrote a post about it and you come on to say horrible things or maybe even argue about random points on something completely inappropriate.

It's that extreme disconnect that is the strange part.

Even on video with them and others, that extreme disconnect really carries in every interaction.

ElwoodBlues · M

Charlie Kirk, formerly one of MAGA's most articulate spokemen, says he can't stand word 'empathy'

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ElwoodBlues · M

@SatanBurger He wrote himself a heck of an epitaph though!!

"I think it’s worth it. I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational."
— Charlie Kirk, 5 April 2023.

"We actually need looser gun laws because I think that oh yeah. Yeah. I mean especially in states like Chicago and Illinois..."
"We fully acknowledge that when you have liberty that you're going to have sometimes undesirable outcomes ... in a free society, people are going to do bad things and dumb things. But there is a price to liberty."
— Charlie Kirk, 8 August 2025.

beckyromero · 36-40, F

SatanBurger · 36-40, F

@beckyromero That's the feeling I get right there

LordShadowfire · 46-50, M

It reminds me of prison, to be honest. Desensitization was a survival tactic there. You couldn't afford to care about anyone but yourself.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@LordShadowfire Good point there. It ties into despising social skills. And therefore a equivalent to socialism.

SatanBurger · 36-40, F

@LordShadowfire Yeah the prison network and how it operates is insidious mostly because it's not about society being better, it's about money.

So I can imagine that as much as you would like to not be, you have to be in an environment like that as conditions make it that way.

But it is similar to maga's view, they do kinda move through life like they don't got a choice when they do have choices

SatanBurger · 36-40, F

I mean it's just a blank hallway so why it so creepy 🫪👀

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